Chicago XXX

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Chicago XXX

Studio album by Chicago
Released	21 March 2006
Recorded	Summer 2005
Genre	Rock/Adult Contemporary
Length	52:57
Label	Rhino
Producer(s)	Jay DeMarcus
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Chicago chronology
Love Songs (2005)	Chicago XXX (2006)

Chicago XXX is an album by the American band Chicago, released on March 21, 2006. Their thirtieth official album, it is Chicago's first studio release of new and original material since 1991's Twenty 1.

The album was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee with horn sessions in Los Angeles, California over the summer of 2005. Production duties were handled by Jay DeMarcus of the country group Rascal Flatts, who came to the project through a friendship with Chicago's bassist-singer Jason Scheff. The band first previewed two tracks from the effort - "Feel" and "Caroline" - during their Autumn 2005 concert tour.

Despite its reasonably positive reviews, Chicago XXX managed to only reach #41 in the US during a brief chart stay.

[edit] Track listing

"Feel" (Hot Single Mix) (Danny Orton/Blair Daly) – 4:01
"King of Might Have Been" (Greg Barnhill/Jason Scheff/Dennis Matkosky) – 3:52
"Caroline" (Scheff/Chas Sandford) – 3:39
"Why Can't We" (with Shelly Fairchild) (Bill Champlin/Jay DeMarcus/Scheff/Sandford) – 4:07
"Love Will Come Back" (with Rascal Flatts) (Scheff/DeMarcus/Sandford) [1] – 3:48
"Long Lost Friend" (Scheff/DeMarcus/Brett James) – 4:33
"90 Degrees and Freezing" (Robert Lamm/Scheff/DeMarcus/James) – 3:52
"Where Were You" (Scheff/Champlin/DeMarcus) – 4:17
"Already Gone" (Champlin/George Hawkins, Jr.) – 6:51
"Come to Me, Do" (Lamm) – 4:36
"Lovin' Chains" (DeMarcus/Marcus Hummon) – 3:56
"Better" (Champlin/Sandford) – 4:41
"Feel" (The Horn Section Mix) (Orton/Daly) – 4:30

[edit] Personnel

Robert Lamm: piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, vocals
Lee Loughnane: trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
James Pankow: trombone
Walt Parazaider: saxophones, flutes
Bill Champlin: Hammond organ, piano, Fender Rhodes, vocals
Jason Scheff: bass guitar, vocals
Tris Imboden: drums
Keith Howland: guitar

Additional musicians:

Steve Brewster: drums
John Brockman: drums
Tom Bukovac: acoustic & electric guitars
Dean DeLeo: guitar
Jay DeMarcus: keyboards, guitars, piano
Shelly Fairchild: vocal on "Why Can't We"
Dan Huff: guitar
Bobby Kimball: background vocals
Jack Kincaid: guitar
James Matchack: keyboards
Yankton Mingua: guitar
Rascal Flatts (Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, Joe Don Rooney): vocals on "Love Will Come Back"
Lee Thornburg: trumpet
Joseph Williams: background vocals

[edit] Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2006	The Billboard 200	41
2006	Top Internet Albums	41

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2006	"Feel"	Adult Contemporary	19
2006	"Feel"	Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	19
2006	"Love Will Come Back"	Adult Contemporary	38
2006	"Love Will Come Back"	Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	21

Chicago
Robert Lamm \| James Pankow \| Lee Loughnane \| Walter Parazaider \| Bill Champlin Jason Scheff \| Tris Imboden \| Keith Howland Terry Kath \| Peter Cetera \| Danny Seraphine \| Laudir DeOliveira \| Donnie Dacus \| Chris Pinnick \| Dawayne Bailey
Discography
Studio albums: The Chicago Transit Authority \| Chicago \| Chicago III \| Chicago V \| Chicago VI \|Chicago VII \| Chicago VIII \| Chicago X \| Chicago XI \| Hot Streets Chicago 13 \| Chicago XIV \| Chicago 16 \| Chicago 17 \| Chicago 18 \| Chicago 19 \| Twenty 1 \| Night & Day Big Band \| Chicago XXX
Live albums: Chicago at Carnegie Hall \| Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert
Compilations: Chicago IX - Chicago's Greatest Hits \| Greatest Hits, Volume II \| Greatest Hits 1982-1989 The Heart of Chicago 1967-1997 \| The Heart of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II \| The Very Best of: Only the Beginning \| Love Songs
Christmas albums: Chicago XXV: The Christmas Album \| What's It Gonna Be, Santa?
Unreleased album: Stone of Sisyphus
Box sets: The Box